> Baffin,
>
> I am using build 1606 and did a printscreen and pasted in a blank new
> email.
> It was a whopping 7mb large! Checked the mail in hotmail and the
> attachement
> was a BMP file.
>
> This is definitely useless.
>
> In OE, i did a lot of printscreen and pasted in irfan view and cut away
> useless pieces of the pic before pasting it into emails. Never had
> anything
> larger than 200+k per picture.
>
> Tried doing the same in WLM and it resulted in an email that is several MB
> large.
>
> I wonder if they have fixed it yet.

Re: How do I send cut-and-pasted screen capture images?

Yes, that is what i am resorting to using these days. I used to just
printscreen and past in irfan view. Then cut away the unwanted bits and just
copy and paste into OE.

No problems there. Funny that WLM chooses to just save all clipboard pics as
bmp resulting in a huge file.

"fs_fan" wrote:

> Instead of copying directly to the e-mail, paste in Paint or similar program
> and compress the image into another format, e.g. PNG. This sgould
> significantly reduce image size.
>
> Hope this helps.

Re: How do I send cut-and-pasted screen capture images?

It's not so much that WLM chooses the BMP format. When you take
a screen shot, the clipboard image *is* in BMP format.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]

"Jeremy" <Jeremy@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:8F24C492-E391-4E26-AFCD-25444F022398@xxxxxx

> Yes, that is what i am resorting to using these days. I used to just
> printscreen and past in irfan view. Then cut away the unwanted bits and just
> copy and paste into OE.
>
> No problems there. Funny that WLM chooses to just save all clipboard pics as
> bmp resulting in a huge file.
>
> "fs_fan" wrote:
>

>> Instead of copying directly to the e-mail, paste in Paint or similar program
>> and compress the image into another format, e.g. PNG. This sgould
>> significantly reduce image size.
>>
>> Hope this helps.

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